ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — After the United States has spent more than $5 billion in a largely failed effort to bolster the Pakistani military effort against Al Qaeda and the Taliban, some American officials now acknowledge that there were too few controls over the money. The strategy to improve the Pakistani military, they said, needs to be completely revamped. ...

There is at least one area of agreement. Both sides say the reimbursements have failed substantially to increase the ability of Pakistani forces to mount comprehensive counterinsurgency operations.

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Does Pakistan's current President Pervez Musharraf also bear responsibility for Bhutto's assassination? Yes. His government didn't protect her.

Free elections in Pakistan? Not a chance. A Pakistani leader with ties to the US and no time for terrorists? Now gone. So the US is still between a rock and a hard place. Salvaging U.S. Diplomacy Amid Division